Research Catalog

Title

Lesser living creatures of the Renaissance / edited by Keith Botelho and Joseph Campana.

Publication

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Botelho, Keith M.
• Campana, Joseph

Description

2 volumes : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Explores the prominence of insects in the literal and symbolic economies of early modern England. Examines concepts cutting across species (insect and otherwise) and draws attention to the work of early modern natural historians"--

Series Statement

Animalibus : of animals and cultures

Uniform Title

Animalibus.

Subject

• 1500-1700
• English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Insects in literature
• English literature > Early modern
• English literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Vol. 1. Introduction: Creatures / Joseph Campana -- 1. Silkworm: Thomas Moffett, silkworm laureate / Bruce Boehrer -- 2. Ants: Go to the pismire / Shannon Kelley -- 3. Flea: Annihilating the copulative conceit : John Donne's conversion of the "son of dust" into uncertain sacrilege / Gary M. Bouchard -- 4. Fly: Of flyes : the insect mind of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus / Perry Guevara -- 5. Gnat: The clamor of things : Moffett's gnats, Spenser's complaints / Steven Swarbrick -- 6. Maggot: Mutable maggots : corruption, generation, and literary legacy / Emily L. King -- 7. Bee: "Some say the bee stings" : toward an apian poetics / Keith Botelho and Joseph Campana -- 8. Wasp: What is it like to be like a wasp? / Donovan Sherman -- 9. Butterflies and moths: Volatile creatures and elaborate work / Chris Barrett -- 10. Grasshopper and locust: Antimonarchal locusts : translating the grasshopper in the aftermath of the English Civil Wars / Kathryn Vomero Santos -- 11. Beetle: Sycorax's beetles : legacies of science, the occult, and blackness / Roya Biggie -- 12. Spider: The renaissance of spiders : ambivalence, beauty, terror, art / Mary Baine Campbell -- 13. Water bugs: Bugs aquatic : water striders from Moffett to marine science / Dan Brayton -- 14. Worms: Worms of conscience / Karen Raber -- 15. Scorpions: Flame of fire beaten : scorpions in and out of mind / Eric C. Brown -- Epilogue: Creatures / Keith Botelho. -- Vol. 2. Introduction: Concepts / Joseph Campana -- 1. Sting: Stinging like a bee in Early Modern England / Julian Yates -- 2. Scale: Lesser living in the Renaissance / Joseph Campana -- 3. Pest: Environmental justice and the (early modern) rhetoric of pest control / Jennifer Munroe and Rebecca Laroche -- 4. Infestation: Out of Africa : locust infestation, universal history, and the early modern theological imaginary / Lucinda Cole -- 5. Habitat and politics: "Regardles of his gouernaunce" : exploring human sovereignty and political formation in early modern insect habitats / Andrew Fleck -- 6. Consume: Consuming insects / Amy L. Tigner -- 7. Decompose: Worm work / Frances E. Dolan -- 8. Locomotion: Creeping and crawling / Keith Botelho -- 9. Communication: Tettix / Lowell Duckert -- 10. Swarm: Song of the swarm / Derek Woods -- 11. Illumination: "Living lamps" / Jessica Lynn Wolfe -- Epilogue: Concepts / Keith Botelho.

Call Number

JFE 23-1182

ISBN

• 9780271094465
• 027109446X
• 9780271094489
• 0271094486

LCCN

2022037304

OCLC

1347269760

Title

Lesser living creatures of the Renaissance / edited by Keith Botelho and Joseph Campana.

Publisher

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Animalibus : of animals and cultures

Animalibus.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1700

Added Author

Botelho, Keith M., editor.

Campana, Joseph, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1182